Article: Adaptive Battery Life Extender Monitors User Access Patterns to Reduce Power Consumption; IBM TRAVELSTAR DISK DRIVES EXTEND BATTERY LIFE FOR MOBILE COMPUTER USERS.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 15, 1995--IBM today announced Adaptive Battery Life Extender(a), a new disk-based power-management technology for use in future models of its Travelstar family of 2.5-inch disk drives for mobile computers. This new technology, implemented in a silicon chip, reduces a drive's total power consumption by as much as 20 percent while providing performance equal to or better than drives with conventional power management technology. Disk drives with the new technology can extend a mobile computer's battery life by up to 8 percent.

IBM expects to be the first in the industry to offer mobile-computer hard drives capable of ...






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